Politician Training

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

Dilemma: A politician trying to save both his faces at once - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton

Judge: 1. A law student who marks his own examination papers; 2. A lawyer who once knew a politician; 3. A man in a trying position. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com